Below are some links to website which may be useful. Please note that SDS Options (Fife) and Disabled Person's Housing Service (Fife) has no involvement or responsibility for the content on external websites. The links shown here are for convenience to the website user and we do not promote, endorse or monitor these external websites in any way.
SDS Projects covering Fife funded by the Support In The Right Direction Fund
Enable | http://www.enable.org.uk/
The project aims to equip people with learning disabilities and their families with the knowledge, skills and confidence to access the Self-directed Support (SDS) option that is best for them. It will provide local people with learning disabilities and their families with accurate and up-to-date information and impartial advice about SDS and will link them to community resources, support and organisations to enable them to achieve the outcomes that are important to them. Links will be made with local authorities and local organisations to help improve their understanding of the needs of people with learning disabilities. The project will be led by a project coordinator and 2 SDS officers to support that role.
SDS Information
Care Information Scotland | http://www.careinfoscotland.scot/
If you look after someone, need care yourself or planning for your future care needs you can get the information and advice you need here.
Deaf Action- BSL Info | https://vimeo.com/album/3519760
British Sign Language interpretation of Scottish Government Self Directed Support Service User Guide
Scottish Government | http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Health/Support-Social-Care/Support/Self-Directed-Support
Information on the Social Care (Self Directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 and the Scottish Government's strategy.
SDSS | http://www.sdsscotland.org.uk/
Self Directed Support Scotland (SDSS) is a national membership organisation which actively promotes Independent Living by supporting, working with and championing the aims of Self Directed Support disabled people's organisations.
Self Directed Support Forum East Renfrewshire | http://www.sdsforumer.org/
The Self-Directed Support Forum East Renfrewshire is a community organization providing advice and information regarding Self-Directed Support. They are a group of disabled people and carers who have already experienced some of the changes to our care packages that the new way of assessing and shaping social care will bring to service users. They have some good videos of people's stories on their website.
Self Directed Support Experience Guides | https://flourish.livingitup.org.uk/experience-guides/self-directed-support
Information, top tips and places to go for help with SDS. You can add information to the guide through www.livingitup.org.uk
Care Information Scotland | http://www.careinfoscotland.scot/
If you look after someone, need care yourself or planning for your future care needs you can get the information and advice you need here.
Deaf Action- BSL Info | https://vimeo.com/album/3519760
British Sign Language interpretation of Scottish Government Self Directed Support Service User Guide
Scottish Government | http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Health/Support-Social-Care/Support/Self-Directed-Support
Information on the Social Care (Self Directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 and the Scottish Government's strategy.
SDSS | http://www.sdsscotland.org.uk/
Self Directed Support Scotland (SDSS) is a national membership organisation which actively promotes Independent Living by supporting, working with and championing the aims of Self Directed Support disabled people's organisations.
Self Directed Support Forum East Renfrewshire | http://www.sdsforumer.org/
The Self-Directed Support Forum East Renfrewshire is a community organization providing advice and information regarding Self-Directed Support. They are a group of disabled people and carers who have already experienced some of the changes to our care packages that the new way of assessing and shaping social care will bring to service users. They have some good videos of people's stories on their website.
Self Directed Support Experience Guides | https://flourish.livingitup.org.uk/experience-guides/self-directed-support
Information, top tips and places to go for help with SDS. You can add information to the guide through www.livingitup.org.uk
Support Agencies
Ark Housing Association | https://www.arkha.org.uk/
Some people require assistance to lead the life of their choice. For over thirty years Ark Housing Association have provided community-based care, support and housing for people with learning difficulties and others with complex and enduring needs.
Barony | http://www.baronyha.org.uk/
Barony supports people to live in their own homes. They provide a wide range of support from home support for a few hours every week to 24-hour support 7 days a week in more intensively supported accommodation including group living accommodation with 24-hour staffing. You do not have to be a tenant of Barony to receive our support services. You may be a tenant of another landlord, own your home, or be living with family or friends. They can offer support to anyone from the age of 16 upwards. Barony offers practical help with things like shopping, keeping appointments, managing a budget, preparing a meal, going to the cinema and meeting friends or more personal care like help with dressing and bathing, taking medication, following a treatment plan or offering emotional support.
Capability Scotland | http://www.capability-scotland.org.uk/
Capability Scotland runs different services across Scotland to support customers living as independently as possible. They can offer 24/7 support to customers living in their own home; Access to community resources including college and leisure activities; Daily living skills eg. personal care, budgeting, shopping, paying bills, cooking, attending medical appointments, medications, help with finances; Holidays and short breaks for supported customers; Extranet- all our customers have will have access to Capability's extranet where they can socialise with other customers in total privacy.
ENeRGI | http://www.energi.org.uk/
ENeRGI is a mental health charity that supports people in the East Neuk of Fife. They run various services including a drop in, housing support and out reach support through self directed support.
Gowrie Care | https://hillcrest.org.uk/Gowrie+Care/Home/
Gowrie Care is a registered charity who aim to improve the quality of the life of everyone we work with. We work throughout Scotland, offer varying levels of support to people in different settings, but in each case we are there to make a difference to people and support them to live their life. They do this by providing flexible, creative, responsive and person centred services; Developing and training our staff to be the best care providers; Ensuring quality accommodation in the community; Assisting to deliver employment and leisure activities to our service users
They support people who have a learning disability, mental health problems, people on the Autism Spectrum and people who are or have been homeless. They work in people’s homes, out in the community and in temporary and supported accommodation. They can provide support from 1 hour a week to 24 hours a day.
Kingdom Housing Association | http://www.kingdomhousing.org.uk/support-care/types/self-directed-support/
Kingdom Housing Association provides support and care services to a range of different people including young people in transition, mental health, autism, physical disability, complex needs, and older people. They have experience of working with people with SDS and those who receive funding directly to pay for their support.
Link Living | http://linkliving.org.uk/
They provide specialist support services to encourage health, wellbeing and independence. They work with a range of different people - young people, homeless, people with mental health issues, people with physical disabilities, older people, people with addictions, and offenders.
Penumbra | http://www.penumbra.org.uk/
Pemumbra supports people with mental health issues in Fife to live independently in their own homes.
The Richmond Fellowship Scotland | www.trfs.org.uk
The Richmond Fellowship Scotland is a charity which supports over 2800 people across Scotland with a broad range of needs to live as independently as possible in their own homes and communities. They are a provider of social care services in Scotland, providing personalised, community-based support services for those who require support in their lives. Some may have mental health difficulties, learning disabilities or autism; others may have dementia, alcohol or drug issues or forensic backgrounds.
Scottish Autism | http://www.scottishautism.org/
Scottish Autism support people with autism living in their own homes, rented accommodation, shared housing and residential care. They assist people to manage their tenancies, develop life skills such as cooking and managing their money, and help them to get out in the community to participate in social activities, education, volunteering, and employment.
Sense Scotland | http://www.sensescotland.org.uk
Sense support people with deafblindness to assist them with activities including preparing a meal, shopping, keeping safe and well, taking part in social or educational activities, or remembering to take your medication.
Some people require assistance to lead the life of their choice. For over thirty years Ark Housing Association have provided community-based care, support and housing for people with learning difficulties and others with complex and enduring needs.
Barony | http://www.baronyha.org.uk/
Barony supports people to live in their own homes. They provide a wide range of support from home support for a few hours every week to 24-hour support 7 days a week in more intensively supported accommodation including group living accommodation with 24-hour staffing. You do not have to be a tenant of Barony to receive our support services. You may be a tenant of another landlord, own your home, or be living with family or friends. They can offer support to anyone from the age of 16 upwards. Barony offers practical help with things like shopping, keeping appointments, managing a budget, preparing a meal, going to the cinema and meeting friends or more personal care like help with dressing and bathing, taking medication, following a treatment plan or offering emotional support.
Capability Scotland | http://www.capability-scotland.org.uk/
Capability Scotland runs different services across Scotland to support customers living as independently as possible. They can offer 24/7 support to customers living in their own home; Access to community resources including college and leisure activities; Daily living skills eg. personal care, budgeting, shopping, paying bills, cooking, attending medical appointments, medications, help with finances; Holidays and short breaks for supported customers; Extranet- all our customers have will have access to Capability's extranet where they can socialise with other customers in total privacy.
ENeRGI | http://www.energi.org.uk/
ENeRGI is a mental health charity that supports people in the East Neuk of Fife. They run various services including a drop in, housing support and out reach support through self directed support.
Gowrie Care | https://hillcrest.org.uk/Gowrie+Care/Home/
Gowrie Care is a registered charity who aim to improve the quality of the life of everyone we work with. We work throughout Scotland, offer varying levels of support to people in different settings, but in each case we are there to make a difference to people and support them to live their life. They do this by providing flexible, creative, responsive and person centred services; Developing and training our staff to be the best care providers; Ensuring quality accommodation in the community; Assisting to deliver employment and leisure activities to our service users
They support people who have a learning disability, mental health problems, people on the Autism Spectrum and people who are or have been homeless. They work in people’s homes, out in the community and in temporary and supported accommodation. They can provide support from 1 hour a week to 24 hours a day.
Kingdom Housing Association | http://www.kingdomhousing.org.uk/support-care/types/self-directed-support/
Kingdom Housing Association provides support and care services to a range of different people including young people in transition, mental health, autism, physical disability, complex needs, and older people. They have experience of working with people with SDS and those who receive funding directly to pay for their support.
Link Living | http://linkliving.org.uk/
They provide specialist support services to encourage health, wellbeing and independence. They work with a range of different people - young people, homeless, people with mental health issues, people with physical disabilities, older people, people with addictions, and offenders.
Penumbra | http://www.penumbra.org.uk/
Pemumbra supports people with mental health issues in Fife to live independently in their own homes.
The Richmond Fellowship Scotland | www.trfs.org.uk
The Richmond Fellowship Scotland is a charity which supports over 2800 people across Scotland with a broad range of needs to live as independently as possible in their own homes and communities. They are a provider of social care services in Scotland, providing personalised, community-based support services for those who require support in their lives. Some may have mental health difficulties, learning disabilities or autism; others may have dementia, alcohol or drug issues or forensic backgrounds.
Scottish Autism | http://www.scottishautism.org/
Scottish Autism support people with autism living in their own homes, rented accommodation, shared housing and residential care. They assist people to manage their tenancies, develop life skills such as cooking and managing their money, and help them to get out in the community to participate in social activities, education, volunteering, and employment.
Sense Scotland | http://www.sensescotland.org.uk
Sense support people with deafblindness to assist them with activities including preparing a meal, shopping, keeping safe and well, taking part in social or educational activities, or remembering to take your medication.
Health & Wellbeing
Access Therapies Fife | https://www.accesstherapiesfife.scot.nhs.uk
Access Therapies Fife provides information to help you to deal with mental health problems and to access a range of local services.
Access Therapies Fife is part of Fife’s Health and Social Care Partnership’s Psychology Service.
Deaf Action | http://www.deafaction.org.uk
Deaf Action aims to ensure people with a sensory impairment have equal access to SDS information, ensure local authority and support/information organisations are aware of the needs of people with sensory impairment, BSL users have an active role in developing BSL translations and media.
Mood Cafe | http://www.moodcafe.co.uk/
Fife online mental health promotion site. Information on self-help, services in the local area, helplines, relaxation tools, different mental health conditions, tips for wellbeing and lifestyle, where carers can get help, section for children and young people, and more.
NHS 24 | http://www.nhs24.com/
NHS website with information on common health problems, finding local services, and how to use their non emergency 111 phone number.
NHS Inform | www.nhsinform.co.uk
A new national health information service providing a co-ordinated approach and a single source of quality assured health information for the public in Scotland
Pamis | http://pamis.org.uk/
One to one support for families, explore digital solutions to reach those living in remote and rural areas, support for families during assessment stage and reassessment stage, partnership working to ensure specific needs of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are understood.
Access Therapies Fife provides information to help you to deal with mental health problems and to access a range of local services.
Access Therapies Fife is part of Fife’s Health and Social Care Partnership’s Psychology Service.
Deaf Action | http://www.deafaction.org.uk
Deaf Action aims to ensure people with a sensory impairment have equal access to SDS information, ensure local authority and support/information organisations are aware of the needs of people with sensory impairment, BSL users have an active role in developing BSL translations and media.
Mood Cafe | http://www.moodcafe.co.uk/
Fife online mental health promotion site. Information on self-help, services in the local area, helplines, relaxation tools, different mental health conditions, tips for wellbeing and lifestyle, where carers can get help, section for children and young people, and more.
NHS 24 | http://www.nhs24.com/
NHS website with information on common health problems, finding local services, and how to use their non emergency 111 phone number.
NHS Inform | www.nhsinform.co.uk
A new national health information service providing a co-ordinated approach and a single source of quality assured health information for the public in Scotland
Pamis | http://pamis.org.uk/
One to one support for families, explore digital solutions to reach those living in remote and rural areas, support for families during assessment stage and reassessment stage, partnership working to ensure specific needs of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are understood.
Befriending
Age Concern (Glenrothes) | http://www.ageconcernglenrothes.org/reable.shtml
The focus of their befriending project is on staff/volunteers visiting older people in their own homes to chat and to provide support and/or assistance with practical tasks and hobbies on a regular one to one basis.
Castle Furniture Project | http://www.castlefurniture.org/projects/befriending
Castle Befriending Project matches volunteer befrienders on a one to one basis with elders in the community that have become socially isolated because of illness, disability or some difficulty or change of circumstance. Befrienders visit regularly and may undertake activities such as a home visit, a trip out to local place of interest or to access local community facilities, or share hobbies and interests. Befrienders carry out a purely social role and do not undertake any personal care or domestic duties.
Crossroads | http://www.crossroadsfifecentral.org/befriending.html
Befriending - Many people in Fife are affected by social isolation and loneliness, which over and above being an emotional experience, can adversely impact on a person's physical and mental health. Crossroads recruits, trains and matches volunteers to act as Befrienders, offering time to isolated and lonely people of all ages across Central, Levenmouth and North East Fife, which in turn helps to alleviate the affects of this problem. The Befrienders provide a vital contact for a person, a link to the outside world and can act as a gateway for other services and valuable support. They can support someone to build confidence and participate in a local community activity or group, or indeed, assist that person to pass on their skills and talents to others.
ENeRGI | http://www.energi.org.uk/befriending/
ENeRGI are a mental health project in North East Fife. They provide a befriending service to help people to improve their health and wellbeing by being less socially isolated.
Fife Carers Centre | http://www.fifecarerscentre.org/befriending-project.html
Fife Carers Centre has a Befriending Service to help carers who are socially isolated to get back out into their local community. Befrienders meet up with carers, usually weekly, for 2 – 3 hours to have a friendly chat, go out for a cuppa or visit a local community resource.
Fife Society For The Blind Befriending Project | http://www.fifesociety.com/
Fife Society offers a one-to-one befriending service for adults of any age who are living with visual impairment or blindness and feel that they are lonely or socially isolated.
Kingdom Companions | Contact [email protected]
This is an inter-generational service for older people who are resident in a care home. Kingdom Companions service matches a client (who we refer to as the befriendee) with a young volunteer (who we refer to as a volunteer companion, often a final-year school student) who, over the course of 16 weeks, offer befriending on a one-to-one basis in the care home. The befriender gets to know the older person and together they create a ‘life map’ - a unique, small canvas displaying pictures, words, photos etc that is reflective of the older person’s life or aspects of it.
LEAD Scotland | http://www.lead.org.uk/aboutlead/contact-lead-scotland/fife-befriending-co-ordinator/
Lead Scotland’s Fife Befriending project is a service is for adults (16+) and older people in Fife who feel isolated, lonely or disconnected, perhaps as a result of disability, ill health or other circumstances.
LINK East Fife Mental Health Befriending | http://www.linkbefriending.org.uk/
Befriending for 11-18 and 18-65 year olds living in the East Fife (and Levenmouth for 11-18s) area who are experiencing isolation as a result of their mental health. Individuals are supported to go out and take part in leisure and community activities with their befriender and there are also group social events. Referral through health or social work professional.
Real Living | http://linkliving.org.uk/volunteer-projects/realliving
RealLiving provides a volunteer befriending service for older people affected by social isolation throughout Fife, with a focus on those who are affected by physical or mental frailty. The service matches trained volunteers with vulnerable older people to provide person-centred befriending support in people’s homes and in their communities.The older person might need help to get out of the house, need someone to talk to or help with small jobs around the house. The service recognises the strengths and gifts of older people and the community resilience that arises from closer inter-generational ties.
The focus of their befriending project is on staff/volunteers visiting older people in their own homes to chat and to provide support and/or assistance with practical tasks and hobbies on a regular one to one basis.
Castle Furniture Project | http://www.castlefurniture.org/projects/befriending
Castle Befriending Project matches volunteer befrienders on a one to one basis with elders in the community that have become socially isolated because of illness, disability or some difficulty or change of circumstance. Befrienders visit regularly and may undertake activities such as a home visit, a trip out to local place of interest or to access local community facilities, or share hobbies and interests. Befrienders carry out a purely social role and do not undertake any personal care or domestic duties.
Crossroads | http://www.crossroadsfifecentral.org/befriending.html
Befriending - Many people in Fife are affected by social isolation and loneliness, which over and above being an emotional experience, can adversely impact on a person's physical and mental health. Crossroads recruits, trains and matches volunteers to act as Befrienders, offering time to isolated and lonely people of all ages across Central, Levenmouth and North East Fife, which in turn helps to alleviate the affects of this problem. The Befrienders provide a vital contact for a person, a link to the outside world and can act as a gateway for other services and valuable support. They can support someone to build confidence and participate in a local community activity or group, or indeed, assist that person to pass on their skills and talents to others.
ENeRGI | http://www.energi.org.uk/befriending/
ENeRGI are a mental health project in North East Fife. They provide a befriending service to help people to improve their health and wellbeing by being less socially isolated.
Fife Carers Centre | http://www.fifecarerscentre.org/befriending-project.html
Fife Carers Centre has a Befriending Service to help carers who are socially isolated to get back out into their local community. Befrienders meet up with carers, usually weekly, for 2 – 3 hours to have a friendly chat, go out for a cuppa or visit a local community resource.
Fife Society For The Blind Befriending Project | http://www.fifesociety.com/
Fife Society offers a one-to-one befriending service for adults of any age who are living with visual impairment or blindness and feel that they are lonely or socially isolated.
Kingdom Companions | Contact [email protected]
This is an inter-generational service for older people who are resident in a care home. Kingdom Companions service matches a client (who we refer to as the befriendee) with a young volunteer (who we refer to as a volunteer companion, often a final-year school student) who, over the course of 16 weeks, offer befriending on a one-to-one basis in the care home. The befriender gets to know the older person and together they create a ‘life map’ - a unique, small canvas displaying pictures, words, photos etc that is reflective of the older person’s life or aspects of it.
LEAD Scotland | http://www.lead.org.uk/aboutlead/contact-lead-scotland/fife-befriending-co-ordinator/
Lead Scotland’s Fife Befriending project is a service is for adults (16+) and older people in Fife who feel isolated, lonely or disconnected, perhaps as a result of disability, ill health or other circumstances.
LINK East Fife Mental Health Befriending | http://www.linkbefriending.org.uk/
Befriending for 11-18 and 18-65 year olds living in the East Fife (and Levenmouth for 11-18s) area who are experiencing isolation as a result of their mental health. Individuals are supported to go out and take part in leisure and community activities with their befriender and there are also group social events. Referral through health or social work professional.
Real Living | http://linkliving.org.uk/volunteer-projects/realliving
RealLiving provides a volunteer befriending service for older people affected by social isolation throughout Fife, with a focus on those who are affected by physical or mental frailty. The service matches trained volunteers with vulnerable older people to provide person-centred befriending support in people’s homes and in their communities.The older person might need help to get out of the house, need someone to talk to or help with small jobs around the house. The service recognises the strengths and gifts of older people and the community resilience that arises from closer inter-generational ties.
Groups in Fife
- ABE Classes
Broad Street Respite Unit | http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=20E1AE91-CD13-11D5-909E0008C7844101
Offers a flexible and responsive respite service to adults with disabilities, Fife-wide. For people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities, and physical disabilities, working closely with clients, families and carers to provide a caring service as near as possible to that at home. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year Referrals can be made by individuals direct to the Unit, or can be made via Social Workers.
Contact Point | http://www.baronyha.org.uk/your-community.html
Barony Housing Associations Contact Points provide open access community-based day services that aim to promote and maintain good mental health within the community. They offer emotional, social and practical support.
Based in Kirkcaldy, Buckhaven and Edinburgh (but open to all people with mental health problems)
Telephone: 0345 140 7777
Day Services | http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/topics/index.cfm?fuseaction=service.display&p2sid=374DD519-F9B7-4811-B9D8-7C105413DF23
In West Fife the council-run day services are provided by West Fife Community Support Service who offer community-integrated activities for people with a learning disability. There are nine day centres in Fife (in Cowdenbeath, Cupar, Dunfermline, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy, Leven and St Andrews) which provide a range of services for adults with physical or learning disabilities. These are run by Fife Council and offer services to over 600 people. These include working with people so they can: take part in a wide range of local activities; find jobs, training and learning opportunities; and take part in social and leisure activities.
Tel: Fife Council: 01383 441177 (9am - 5pm)
Disability Sport Fife | http://www.fifeleisure.org.uk/index.cfm/health-and-wellbeing/disability-sport-fife/
Disability Sport Fife (DSF) is a Branch of Scottish Disability Sport and is a registered Scottish charity (Charity No SC020994). DSF offers a weekly programme of sports specific and multi-sports sessions for children, young people and adults with a physical, sensory or learning disability. DSF provides an annual programme of events and is committed to increasing levels of participation, developing athlete potential and encouraging volunteers into coaching. The DSF website provides information on how to register for sessions (www.fifeleisure.org.uk – find us in the Health and Wellbeing section).
Tel: 03451 555555 + Ext 444989
Email: Norma Buchanan (DSF Administrator) on [email protected]
Dunfermline Advocacy Initiatives | http://www.dunfermlineadvocacy.org/
Support and promote the rights of adults with learning disabilities in West Fife through Citizen Advocacy. Ensures that people with learning disabilities have support to make decisions about things that affect their lives and that they have access to the same rights and privileges as the rest of the community. Open referral policy.
Tel: 01383 624382
E-mail: [email protected]
Equal Voice
Equal Voice are a registered charity who match people with learning disabilities with a citizen advocate - a local person who gives freely of their time in order that the person being advocated for has an opportunity to participate more in their community particularly in relation to decision making.
Tel: 01592 653754
Email: [email protected]
Express Group Fife | http://www.expressgroupfife.org.uk/
Express Group Fife is a self-help social group for individuals over the age of 18 with mental health problems. The aim of the Groups is to give opportunities for self-help social activities, outings and holidays; and to provide a place where members can share experiences, and offer mutual support. Tel: 01592 652975
Fife Boomerang Association
Fife Boomerang is a service for individuals between the ages of 18-65, of all abilities, who are experiencing mental health difficulties. The aims are to promote outdoor pursuits and to encourage personal growth and development through outdoor pursuits. The Association offers a seasonal programme, four times a year, of outdoor activities.
Tel: 01592 775650 (Monday to Friday 9am and 1pm)
Fife EmployAbility Team (FEAT) | http://www.fifeemploymentaccesstrust.com/
Fife Employ Ability Team, part of Fife Council's Social Work Service, provides practical support and guidance to individuals and organisations on disability issues in relation to employment. Fife EmployAbility Team are committed to enabling people affected by disability to achieve their employment goals. The Team will place an emphasis on helping people to progress into open, mainstream employment.
Email: [email protected] Tel: 01592 416414
Fife Hearing Voices Network | http://www.fifefamilies.org.uk/Index.asp?MainID=3572
Fife Hearing Voices Network provide support to people who hear voices from anywhere in Fife. Groups meet throughout Fife which give people the opportunity to meet others and share experiences and strategies in a safe confidential environment. Time limited 1:1 support is also offered for individuals who may find attending a group difficult.
Tel: 01592 267771 (Monday to Friday 9am - 4pm Answering machine at other times)
Helping Hands Leisure Club
Mainly offer leisure & recreation activities for people with learning disabilities.
Address: Torryburn Community Leisure Centre, Torryburn, KY12 8SU
Tel: 01383 850470
Momentum Scotland | http://www.momentumuk.org.uk/
Assisting disabled people access employment that fits their goals, skills and interests. Providing support to both potential employees and employers as they connect people to skills then to jobs. Programs are flexible. Fife service is situated in Dysart but is available to people throughout the whole of Fife.Tel: 01592 654618 Email: [email protected]
Penumbra Self Harm Project | http://www.penumbra.org.uk/services-locations/fife/self-harm-project-fife/
The Fife Self Harm Project provides a non-judgemental, young people friendly and user led support service to young people (18+) who self-harm. We also explore the needs of family, carers and professionals in contact with young people who self harm.
Tel. 01383 747 788
Re-engage (formerly Contact The Elderly) | Re-engage: Charity Supporting Older People Through Volunteering (reengage.org.uk)
help people aged 75 or older. If they are lonely, live at home on their own and are unable to easily get out of the house unaided. Small local groups use volunteer drivers who each pick up 1 or 2 elderly people from their own homes. They take them to the home of a volunteer host where the volunteers and older people spend a few hours together with afternoon tea, usually on a Sunday. Each group normally meets once a month, welcomed into the homes of different hosts. Groups are held in Dunfermline, Glenrothes, St Andrews and Dalgety Bay. Please contact the national freephone number/London office for more information.
Freephone: 0800 716543 / 020 7240 0630.
Respite Fife | http://www.respite-fife.org.uk/
Respite Fife provides a service for adults with mild to moderate learning difficulties, living in the community. They offer short respite breaks either through the week or at weekends. Tel:01592 269399 Email: [email protected]
Riding for the Disabled Association | http://www.shiresmill.org/
Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) is a UK charity that was first registered in 1969. Today RDA is run by some 15,000 volunteers in over 600 Member Groups who provide riding and carriage driving to some 24,000 adults and young people with a wide range of disabilities. There are a number of local groups: Tel: 01383 882700 or 0845 450 6801
The Ecology Centre | http://www.theecologycentre.org/
The Naturally Making a Difference garden project offers work experience to people aged 16 - 65yrs with a disability. This includes physical disabilities, mental health issues or learning disability. Work placements are offered for one day per week for one year. Activities include garden tasks such as sowing seeds, transplanting, lawn mowing and pruning as well as the opportunity to learn about conservation. Self-referral / other agencies referrals accepted. Tel: 01592 891 567 E-mail: d[email protected]
The Food Train Ltd - Supporting Older People at Home | Home - The Food Train
The Food Train is a Scottish registered charity offering a range of services, provided by volunteers, to support older people in Scotland. Serviices include grocery shopping and home deliveries, household support, befriending, outreach library provision and reading and also neighbourhood meal sharing.
Victim Support Scotland
Provide a service in Fife, offering help to people affected by crime. Tel: 0845 241 2126. Email: [email protected]
Telephone and Online Counselling
Beating The Blues | http://www.beatingtheblues.co.uk/
This NHS Service is available in many areas of Scotland, including Fife. It provides Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for people experiencing mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety. The programme consists of eight, one hour sessions completed weekly. It can help you to pinpoint and change unhelpful ways of thinking, which can affect how you feel. It also teaches you more effective ways of solving problems. Your GP can refer you to this fully supported NHS service. You can do the sessions on your home computer/ tablet or using a computer in a local library. Please see your GP for a referral to this service. Shortly after your referral you will be contacted by the NHS Beating the Blues co-ordinator. You will then be given a code to access the programme.
Breathing Space | http://breathingspace.scot/
Advisor are available for 24 hours at weekends (6pm Friday - 6am Monday) and 6pm - 2am on weekdays (Monday - Thursday) for advice and support: 0800 83 85 87
Childline | https://www.childline.org.uk/
Advisor are available for 24 hours at weekends (6pm Friday - 6am Monday) and 6pm - 2am on weekdays (Monday - Thursday) for advice and support: 0800 83 85 87
Living Life | http://www.nhs24.com/usefulresources/livinglife/
This is a free telephone service provided by NHS24. It is available to anyone over the age of 16 who is suffering from low mood, mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety. The service offers either supported self help sessions or sessions of cognitive-behavioural therapy. An assessment will be carried out to help decide which is best for you. Your GP can refer you to the service or you can contact them yourself. The phone line is free and confidential: 0800 328 9655 (Mon-Fri 1pm to 9pm). You will be asked to provide some details and then an assessment appointment will be arranged to discuss the service and how help can be provided to you.
Living Life to the Full | http://www.llttf.com/
This is a self help life skills training package based on a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approach, for those with mild to moderate depression and anxiety.
Mood GYM | https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome
this is a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based program independent resource developed and delivered by the Australian National University. It helps you identify and overcome problem emotions and develop good coping skills. Designed to prevent and treat depression it can also be helpful for anxiety and for people of different ages.
Relationships Scotland | http://www.relationships-scotland.org.uk/
If you want to talk to someone, or get advice or support about relationships, you can use Relationship Scotland’s online Live Chat. Live Chat allows you to talk to a trained counsellor in real time. Sessions usually last around 25 minutes and this service is completely free and confidential.
Samaritans | http://www.samaritans.org/
Trained volunteers are able to listen to you any time day or night. They can help you talk through whatever is troubling you, find the answers that are right for you, and offer support. You don’t have to give your real name or any personal information if you don’t want to. This service is confidential: 116 123 which can be used from any landline, payphone or mobile. This number can be called, free of charge, 24 hours per day, every day of the year.
This NHS Service is available in many areas of Scotland, including Fife. It provides Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for people experiencing mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety. The programme consists of eight, one hour sessions completed weekly. It can help you to pinpoint and change unhelpful ways of thinking, which can affect how you feel. It also teaches you more effective ways of solving problems. Your GP can refer you to this fully supported NHS service. You can do the sessions on your home computer/ tablet or using a computer in a local library. Please see your GP for a referral to this service. Shortly after your referral you will be contacted by the NHS Beating the Blues co-ordinator. You will then be given a code to access the programme.
Breathing Space | http://breathingspace.scot/
Advisor are available for 24 hours at weekends (6pm Friday - 6am Monday) and 6pm - 2am on weekdays (Monday - Thursday) for advice and support: 0800 83 85 87
Childline | https://www.childline.org.uk/
Advisor are available for 24 hours at weekends (6pm Friday - 6am Monday) and 6pm - 2am on weekdays (Monday - Thursday) for advice and support: 0800 83 85 87
Living Life | http://www.nhs24.com/usefulresources/livinglife/
This is a free telephone service provided by NHS24. It is available to anyone over the age of 16 who is suffering from low mood, mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety. The service offers either supported self help sessions or sessions of cognitive-behavioural therapy. An assessment will be carried out to help decide which is best for you. Your GP can refer you to the service or you can contact them yourself. The phone line is free and confidential: 0800 328 9655 (Mon-Fri 1pm to 9pm). You will be asked to provide some details and then an assessment appointment will be arranged to discuss the service and how help can be provided to you.
Living Life to the Full | http://www.llttf.com/
This is a self help life skills training package based on a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approach, for those with mild to moderate depression and anxiety.
Mood GYM | https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome
this is a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based program independent resource developed and delivered by the Australian National University. It helps you identify and overcome problem emotions and develop good coping skills. Designed to prevent and treat depression it can also be helpful for anxiety and for people of different ages.
Relationships Scotland | http://www.relationships-scotland.org.uk/
If you want to talk to someone, or get advice or support about relationships, you can use Relationship Scotland’s online Live Chat. Live Chat allows you to talk to a trained counsellor in real time. Sessions usually last around 25 minutes and this service is completely free and confidential.
Samaritans | http://www.samaritans.org/
Trained volunteers are able to listen to you any time day or night. They can help you talk through whatever is troubling you, find the answers that are right for you, and offer support. You don’t have to give your real name or any personal information if you don’t want to. This service is confidential: 116 123 which can be used from any landline, payphone or mobile. This number can be called, free of charge, 24 hours per day, every day of the year.
Other
ALISS | https://www.aliss.org/
A Local Information System for Scotland is a search tool for health and wellbeing resources in Scotland. It has information on community resources that people can access by searching by area and/or type of resource.
Disabled Person's Housing Service (Fife) | www.dphsfife.org.uk
Housing advice for people with a disability. Advisors will provide information about housing, assistance with completing fife housing register applications and applications to housing associations. They will also assist people to look at their housing options and look to see if there are any ways to improve their chances of finding accommodation.
Crossroads Fife Central | www.crossroadsfifecentral.org
A registered charity operating across Central and North East Fife, providing high quality person centred support to Carers who are caring for someone of any age with any disability or illness.
Euan's Guide | https://www.euansguide.com/
Euan's Guide features disabled access reviews from disabled people and their friends and families
"The aim of Euan's Guide is to empower disabled people by providing information that will give confidence and choices for getting out and about."
Euan MacDonald, Founder of Euan's Guide
Inclusion Scotland | http://inclusionscotland.org/
Inclusion Scotland (IS) is a consortium of organisations of disabled people and disabled individuals. Through a process of structured development we aim to draw attention to the physical, social, economic, cultural and attitudinal barriers that affect our everyday lives as disabled people in Scotland. We aim to encourage a wide understanding of those issues throughout mainstream thought in Scotland. In short, we want to reverse the current social exclusion experienced by disabled people through civil dialogue, partnerships, capacity building, education, persuasion, training and advocacy.
Household Quotes | http://householdquotes.co.uk/benefits-and-grants-for-oaps/
Every year in the UK, a staggering £3.7bn worth of benefits fail to be claimed by the older generation. Whilst some people might not actually need the grants and financial support, these opportunities are a lifeline to others. Many of the benefits are means-tested and income related, but others are based only on someone’s age meaning they’re practically guaranteed. Meanwhile, other benefits provide financial help during difficult times; if you experience bereavement, for example.
Cosy Kingdom | http://www.cosykingdom.org.uk/
Cosy Kingdom is a free and impartial energy and debt advice service available to all tenants and homeowners across Fife. Our energy advisors can help you find practical and affordable ways to save energy, understand your energy bills and tariffs, advise on fuel debt and other money problems, and help with Warm Homes Discount. We can also provide free benefit checks and offer a free handy service for those eligible for free energy saving measures.
Living with Cerebral palsy | https://www.roydswithyking.com/solicitors-for-life/medical-negligence-claims/birth-injury-claims/cerebral-palsy/living-with-cerebral-palsy/